I haven't seen any - I use a USB 1.44 drive on occasion but that's it. The closest might be a KyroFlux, that is used to perform analysis/imaging of various floppy media through special software.For the sake of reading/writing media the general practice is to use a tweener PC - and if you pop it on the network, it can be a pretty smooth setup.

There's this option... Adapter for 5.25 to connect via USB... It says it also works with drives from other computers (not just PC - ie. Apple, Amiga, etc) so looks actually pretty cool. Its around US$55

Carcenomy wrote:As a heads up to anyone wanting to use floppy drives on new PCs, Windows 10 Tech Preview does NOT support floppy drives at all.

Guess I'm not surprised really. Most Mobo's don't come with Serial or Parallel ports these days (since USB does it all) and most PC's you buy retail don't usually ship with 3.5" FDD's either. I guess OS's would eventually follow suit and start phasing out legacy support...

Carcenomy wrote:As a heads up to anyone wanting to use floppy drives on new PCs, Windows 10 Tech Preview does NOT support floppy drives at all.

Guess I'm not surprised really. Most Mobo's don't come with Serial or Parallel ports these days (since USB does it all) and most PC's you buy retail don't usually ship with 3.5" FDD's either. I guess OS's would eventually follow suit and start phasing out legacy support...

I haven't seen a new motherboard with integrated floppy controller since the crossover between Socket 775 and Socket 1156 - early this decade. Last machine with a new 3.5" drive I saw was from 2007 - drive required as the Windows installer didn't yet know how to load additional drivers during setup from sources other than floppies, was needed for machines using RAID.

All the more reason to keep some of the old girls around I guess.

Just the local Commodore hobo and middle-aged PC hoarder.eisa on Trademe. A lasting reminder of a Compaq fetish when I was younger.